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Reading the fire : the traditional Indian literatures of America / Jarold Ramsey.
Summary:
"Reading the Fire engages America's "first literatures," traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition includes four new essays."--Jacket.
Record details
- ISBN: 0295977876
- ISBN: 9780295977874
- Physical Description: xxvii, 332 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: Rev. and expanded.
- Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1999.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 1. Creations and Origins -- 2. Coyote and Friends: An Experiment in Interpretive Bricolage -- 3. The Poetry and Drama of Healing: The Iroquoian Condolence Ritual and the Navajo Night Chant -- 4. From Mythic to Fictive in a Nez Perce Orpheus Myth -- 5. "The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit," and the Ecological Imagination -- 6. The Wife Who Goes Out like a Man, Comes Back as a Hero: The Art of Two Oregon Indian Narratives -- 7. Uncursing the Misbegotten in a Tillamook Incest Story -- 8. Genderic and Racial Appropriation in Victoria Howard's "The Honorable Milt" [Howard] -- 9. Simon Fraser's Canoe; or, Capsizing into Myth [Fraser].10. Fish-Hawk and Other Heroes -- 11. Retroactive Prophecy in Western Indian Narrative -- 12. The Bible in Western Indian Mythology -- 13. Ti-Jean and the Seven-headed Dragon: Instances of Native American Assimilation of European Folklore -- 14. Francis La Flesche's "The Song of Flying Crow" and the Limits of Ethnography [La Flesche] -- 15. Tradition and Individual Talents in Modern Indian Writing [Indians, Indigenous, Aboriginal or Native peoples, First Nations].
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- Subject:
- Folk literature, Indian > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Indian literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Littérature populaire indienne d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord (Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature indienne d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord (Ouest) > Histoire et critique.
Folk literature, Indian.
Indian literature.
United States, West. - Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | PM 155 .R36 1999 | 262356 | Stacks | Available | - |
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